Agamsma.'] xciv. apoctnaceje. (J. D. Hooker.) 665- 



f-1 in. eglandular, corolla-tube J in., lolws ovate acute, ovary glabrous. SJurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 186. A, Roxburghii, G. Dm ex Wight le. t. 440. A. Wallichii^ 

 G. Bon Gen. 8yit. iv. 77. Echites oalycina, Wall. Cat. 1653. E. oaryophyllata, 

 So.vhurgh Fl. Ind. ii. 11 (and drawings copied by Wight, t. 440). 



Tavoy ; Gomez, Kwrz, 



Branches pubescent. Xeaties 3-4 in., coriaceous; petiole | in. %»!es many-fld.^ 

 tomentose. Sepals very narrow, rusty tomentose. CoroUa-tubeh.oa,vy, slender, cylindric, 

 base hardly dilated, narrowed upwards to the mouth, villous within. Ovwry quite- 

 glabrous ; style elongate-clavate, truncate, stigma columnar. Fruit unknown. — I have 

 under A. earyophyUata stated my reasons for retaining that name for the plant of" 

 Eoxburgh's Herbarium, and thus avoiding an involved synonymy and the necessity 

 of giving it a new name. 



5. A. cymosa, G. Don Gen Synt. iv. 77 ; glabrous or shoots and leaves-, 

 beneath softly tomentose, leaves eUiptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute or 

 finely acuminate, nerves 5-7 pairs, cymes dense rounded densely tomentose,. 

 sepals ^^ in., corollas-tube J-^ in., lobes J-^ in. ovate acuminate, ovary hirsute.. 



Silhet; Boxbwgh.Sce. Deccan Peninsula ; common from Bombay to Travan~ 

 core, Heyne, &c. 



A stout rambling climber, very variable in size and habit, of which I am unable, 

 to distinguish the following forms specifically. 



Vab. 1. cymosa proper ; shoots tawny-tomentose, leaves 4-6 by 2-2 J in. elliptic 

 or oblong abruptly acuminate glabrous or sparsely hairy above, pubescent or tomentose- 

 beneath, nerves 7-9 pairs, sepals ^ in., corolla-lobes J in. long. — A cymosa, G. Don 

 I. c. ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 433. Echites cymosa, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 16 ; Wight Ic. t._ 

 395 ; Wall. Cat. 1654, in ^Bj-i!.— Silhet. 



Vab. 2. Iccneeolata ; shoots tawny tomentose, leaves 4-5J by 1-1^ in. oblong lan- 

 ceolate finely acuminate margins and midrib' beneath sparsely hairy, nerves 7-9 pairs, 

 sepals ^ in., corolla-lobes j in. broad, follicles 3 by 3J in. sessile Unear-felcate, seeds, 

 ovate-lanceolate glabrous. — Echites cymosa. Wall. Cat. 1654, in part (specimens from. 

 Calcutta Botanic Gardens). 



Vae. 3. conferta ; shoots puberulous or hoary, leaves 2-3 by l|-2 in. elliptic- 

 oblong acute obtuse or apiculate rarely acuminate, quite glabrous on both surfaces, 

 nerves 3-4 pairs, flowers as in var. 2. Echites conferta, Wall. Gat. 1655. — Deccan 

 Peninsula, Serb. Heyne, 



Vak. 4. elegans; shoots puberulous or glabrate, leaves li-24 by J-IJ acute- 

 obtuse or acuminate, nerves 3-6 pairs, sepals J-J in., corolla-lobes ^— ^ in., "follicles 

 6-9 by J in., terete, hairy at length glabrate, seeds linear-oblong shortly beaked 

 glahvous " (Thwaites). Aganosma elegans, G. Don I.e.; A. DO. Prodr. viii. 433;: 

 Wight Ic. t. 1304 ; Tkwaites Fmm. 194. A. Doniana, Wight Ic. t. 1306 (a small- 

 flOwered form) ; Dalz ^ Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 146. Echites elegans, Wall. Cat. 1656. 

 E. braeteata. Herb. Heyne in Wall. Cat. imder 1656. — ^Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



A. LAEVIGATA, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 113 (Eheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 9); without: 

 description. S. Concan. Is probably Parsonsia. 



34. EPXeVNVnK, Wight. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant, arching. Flowers hoary,, 

 in dense subcapitate corymbose or open paniculate cymes. Calyx small, 5-fid, 

 lobes acute. Corolla salver-shaped, tube long, throat villous ; lobes overlapping- 

 to the right, twisted to the left, or nearly erect. Stamens below the middle of 

 the tube ; anthers sagittate, acuminate, conniving around and hardly adhering^ 

 to the -stigma, cells spurred at the base. Disc lining the calyx-tube, fleshy, 

 5-lobed. Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled, dorsally adnate to the disc and sur-- 

 mounted by its 5 connivent lobes ; style long or short, top obovate or cupular» 



